12:45 – 1:45 pm – Lessons Learned from a Blue Angels Pilot – Lt. Commander Scott “Yogi” Beare, U.S. Navy (Retired). The fastest he got was 1.78 Mach, which is 1.78 times the speed of sound, which equals about 1,300 miles per hour. Beare is a graduate of the famed Naval Fighter Weapons School “TOPGUN” as well as a combat decorated veteran of Desert Storm where he was awarded two air medals and a navy commendation medal for valor in aerial combat.